For left-wing academics, violence against the right targets is a form of patriotism.
Aaron Hillegass attended New College of Florida as an undergraduate, had a successful career as a software engineer, and returned to the school this January to teach in its new data science program. But there was one problem for him: Florida governor Ron DeSantis.
Hillegass believes that DeSantis’s democratically approved higher-education reforms are a form of “fascism” and that the new slate of conservative trustees at New College, including me, are dangerous “sycophants” and “chuckleheads” who have “terrified the students and faculty.” Hillegass has been teaching at New College for only three months, but the reforms—designed to improve the struggling college, which ranks dead-last on Florida’s state performance metrics—were too much.
